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5	''[[https://peppercarrot.com Pepper&Carrot]]'' (with that orthography) is a webcomic about a young witch named Pepper, her cat Carrot, and her friends and acquaintances (who are also named after food ingredients, yes) on the magical planet Hereva. The webcomic is supported by patrons through crowdfunding, translated into around 30 languages through fanslation, and is licensed CC-BY. The main author/illustrator, David Revoy, encourages fanart.
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7	An supplement for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Fifth Edition, called ''Witchcraft: Magic Of Hereva'' was [[https://kickstarter.com/projects/xacur/witchcraft-magic-of-hereva-a-5e-supplement funded through]] Website/{{Kickstarter}} and is available [[https://drivethrurpg.com/product/291872 here]].
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10	!!''Pepper&Carrot'' contains examples of:
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12	* ActionGirl: Pepper's most used magical item seems to be a broom, which she is adept at maneuvering quickly in order to avoid potentially dangerous opponents such as dragons.
13	* AllThereInTheManual: The backstory of several characters, the backstory of the world, and an explanation of the magic system are found in the wiki.
14	%%* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Posh zombie canary.
15	* AwesomeButImpractical: Pepper can summon demons and black holes. This isn't all that useful in a slice of life series (although that seems to be changing as she seeks employment).
16	* BackstoryHorror: The Great War. So far, it's only been talked about in the wiki; not the comics themselves. The witches of Chaosah were [[spoiler:wiped out, but that screwed up the balance of the world so Zombiah revived Thyme, Cayenne and Cumin]].
17	* BackgroundMagicField: ''Rea'', like {{Mana}} but stored external to the user in the environment; discussed in the wiki but not yet in the comic, but shown in the comic in Panel 8 of Episode 33.
18	* BigThinShortTrio: Pepper's godmothers. Cayenne is tall and thin, Thyme is very short, and Cumin is a bit on the plump side.
19	* BrilliantButLazy: Pepper is actually one of the most gifted witches out there, and a very powerful one to boot. It's her temper and laziness (as well as generally not grasping the seriousness of Chaosah magic) that make her hilariously incompetent at pretty much every serious task.
20	* BreakingTheFourthWall:'' [[InvokedTrope Weaponized]]'' by Pepper in Episode 31. She uses [[CanisLatinicus "Jpegus qualitis" and "Qualitis Minimalis"]], which causes Cayenne's subsequent panels to be of increasingly worse image quality until one panel fails to load entirely, forcing Cayenne to escape.
21	* ColdGreyEyes: The godmothers, due to [[spoiler:being revived from death]].
22	* ConceptArtGallery: David's blog discussing process.
23	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: None of the apprentice's parents are shown; Pepper is adopted by the godmothers, and Coriander discusses the reason why she ascends the throne so young.
24	%%* CuteWitch: The apprentices and arguably at least one of the godmothers.
25	* DirtyOldWoman: one wouldn't really expect Thyme, the normally dead-serious godmother, to use her scrying stone for anything other than more evil sorcery? Turns out, [[https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article364/episode-15-the-crystal-ball she's getting busy in her free time]].
26	* DisproportionateRetribution: What does Pepper do when the other girls won't come to her party? Summon some demons! Subverted though; [[spoiler:she just uses the demons as backup guests.]]
27	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Pepper looks a lot younger in Episode 1 than she does in later episodes. She also seems to have black hair instead of dark brown and is wearing a different outfit.
28	* EdibleThemeNaming: zig-zagged. While the witches and their familiars are named after spices and other food (for reasons unclear aside from there being an entire school of magic for growing things) and a mayor named after a non-food plant, we have seen some royals with names that are pop culture references spelled backwards ('Lord Azeirf' for Characters/DragonBallFrieza and 'Queen Aiel' for Characters/StarWarsLeiaOrgana), a pigeon named simply 'Ms. Pigeon', and a prince with no apparent meaning to his (fantasy-styled) name.
29	* ExposedToTheElements: In the holiday episode Pepper goes running around a snowy landscape in a coat, mittens and her usual short skirt. [[spoiler:They were inside a snowglobe, so it might not have been that cold.]] In ''The Dragon's Tooth'' she doesn't even bother with the coat.
30	* {{Expy}}: In response to a question that a reader posted [[https://www.davidrevoy.com/article583/episode-19-pollution/show#comments as a comment on Episode 19]] of ''Pepper&Carrot''[[note]]the commenter asked: "Is it me, or do Cayenne and Thyme seem very like Weatherwax and Ogg?"[[/note]], the author confirmed[[note]]"I'm a big fan of Pratchett's witches ;-)", he replied[[/note]] that Pepper's mentors — or at least two of them, specifically Cayenne and Thyme — are intentionally similar to [[Characters/DiscworldWitches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg]] (respectively) from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels.[[note]]Prior to that, [[https://www.davidrevoy.com/article501/episode-11-the-witches-of-chaosah/show#comments three of the comments on Episode 11]] had also pointed out that Cayenne and Granny Weatherwax have some character traits in common.[[/note]] Cayenne looks similar to Paul Kidby's depictions of Granny Weatherwax in his ''Discworld'' artwork[[note]]Kidby is one of the official illustrators for the ''Discworld'' novels; for some examples of his artwork featuring both Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, see [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159931/mediaviewer/rm2780601856?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_prd_3 the DVD cover artwork]] for the [[Main/AnimatedAdaptation animated miniseries adaptation]] of ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', as well as [[https://www.paulkidby.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Wryd-Sisters-2013-1000x1334_c.jpg this painting]] and [[https://www.paulkidby.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Discworld-Massif-1-1000x583_c.jpg this other painting]].[[/note]], and has a similar personality as well. Pepper's other mentors, Thyme and Cumin, [[DecompositeCharacter both have some similarities]] to Nanny Ogg; basically, Thyme is more similar personality-wise, whereas Cumin has a closer physical resemblance. Outside of the canon storyline, David Revoy co-authored an {{intercontinuity crossover}} webcomic[[note]]for more details about this, see its own entry below[[/note]], which contains a gag where a character from a different webcomic meets Cayenne and mistakes her for Granny Weatherwax.
31	* FloatingContinent: The cities of Komona and Kerberos. According to the wiki, other cities were lifted into the air during the war as well.
32	* GoKartingWithBowser: Pepper learns to summons the Chaosah demons, nigh omnipotent scary beasts that obey the summoner. Instead of sending them after those who wronged her, though, she just invites them for a nice cup of tea. They don't mind.
33	%%* GreatOffscreenWar: The war between Magmah and Aquah.
34	* IntercontinuityCrossover: There's a crossover webcomic titled ''Superflu vs Pepper&Carrot'' [[note]]it was originally posted one episode at a time by its two authors on their accounts at Framasoft's Mastodon server, running for 13 episodes in total, and later on, a user of Framasoft's Gitlab server named Luc Didry collected the entire series on a single static Gitlab Pages web page hosted there; '''be warned''', though, that one of its episodes is mildly '''NSFW''', so it won't be linked to from here[[/note]], which is a crossover between a ''[[FrancoBelgianComics bande dessinée]]'' / webcomic titled ''Les aventures inutiles de Superflu'' (by Simon "Gee" Giraudot) and ''Pepper&Carrot'', made as a collaboration between their authors[[note]]odd-numbered episodes are credited to Gee, whereas even-numbered episodes are credited to David Revoy[[/note]]. The aforementioned [[{{Expy}} similarities]] between Cayenne and one of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s characters are used as a source of humor in its 9th episode, when the eponymous character from ''Les aventures inutiles de Superflu'' meets Cayenne and introduces himself thusly: "Oh, hello [[Characters/DiscworldWitches Granny Weatherwax]]! I don't remember: have you brought me to [[Literature/HarryPotter Gryffindor]] or to [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Isengard]]? And have you seen the stylish turban that someone put on me?!"[[note]]For context: he's acting disoriented here because he suffered a head injury in the 8th episode, as a result of having tried to ride on a Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner as if it were a witch's flying broom; the "turban" that he mentioned is actually a head bandage. David Revoy clearly found this very amusing, as can be seen in a comment that he posted as a reply to Episode 9's original Mastodon post[[/note]].
35	* KaleidoscopeEyes: Pepper's eyes switch between blue and brown. It's easy to miss as neither color is particularly "flashy", and is likely due to evolving art style; no one remarks on it in-universe.
36	* MeaningfulName: As mentioned above, it's mostly not clear in-world why people have the names they have, but some clues are offered to the audience. Saffron is an expensive spice and the namesake of a witch with expensive tastes. Carrot was named after a bin of carrots he hid in and his orange fur. Spirulina is an aquatic witch named after an alga that lives in water. Her familiar (Durian) and another (Mango) are likely named after the codenames of Creator/BlenderFoundation movies the author has worked on.
37	* NoDialogueEpisode:
38	** All episodes whose number is divisible by five. David says he likes to challenge himself to drive the story or characterisation forward without depending on textual dialogue, although symbols seem to not break the rules.
39	** For Carrot and his fellow familiars, works even more often: they are sentient but cannot speak, yet manage to relay complex thoughts to each other using only gestures and imagination.
40	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Chaosah witches can summon a trio of Chaos Demons, but it's not widely known that they like tea and cupcakes.
41	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dragons seem to be important to the pre-human history and ecology of Hereva, and come in many different kinds, from the lightning dragon (a purely electrical being) to the swamp dragon (which is normally docile but can throw mud around when aggrieved) to the humble dragoncow.
42	* OurGeniesAreDifferent: A walrus-headed genie lures whoever he can get to sign a paper into a life of easy wealth and fame.
43	* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: The practitioners of Aquah must breathe underwater in order to attend their studies. The only one we've met doesn't have a fishtail, however.
44	* OurWormholesAreDifferent: Actually black holes, the generation of which is a signature technique of witches of Chaosah.
45	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite the name, the magic school Zombiah is not said to create George-Romero-esque zombies (with the stated aim being to avoid cultural appropriation from West African / Carribean religions). Three revenants are seen and they seem quite keen-minded.
46	%%* SliceOfLife
47	* ThouShaltNotKill:
48	** in ''The Battlefield'' arc, Pepper decides to resolve the conflict between two armies bloodlessly by making their weapons harmless, then fighting in "arcade mode" to see who wins without anyone actually dying. ''Both'' armies immediately chase her off.
49	** It's implied throughout the story that this is one of the things the aunties ''really'' try to work around with Pepper: what good is the most powerful combat magic in the universe if she's unwilling to harm anyone?
50	* UvulaEscapeRoute: How Pepper and Carrot escape a giant fish in the summer special.
51	%%* WorldTree: The Great Tree of Komona.

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